The sun is over the yardarm and there's a pirate ship in our harbour.

[nanila]

Me in another dress, on my balcony. Did I mention I only brought dresses to wear at this meeting? YAY DRESSES.

The Operations Review is over. I have completed one presentation. Tomorrow, the Cross-Calibration meeting begins, and I do my second presentation.

I have been running on the beach before the dawn both mornings so far. I have eaten ALL THE THINGS because this resort is all-inclusive with the food and the drinks. I have been swimming in, and lounging by, the pool with my fellow lady engineer/programmer/scientist colleagues. I have done a great deal of work, including some on-the-fly analysis that I've just put into tomorrow's presentation. I'm feeling accomplished.

It just might be rum o'clock.

Comments

[gominokouhai]

It is /always/ rum o' clock.

[cxcvi]

Depends on the rum, I think...

[davidgillon]

Sounds like a call for some experimentation!

[nanila]

It surely was last night! \o/ I would've had more but I have to give a talk this morning. So perhaps I try again tonight. :)

[pbristow]

Good choice. Back 'ere in ol' blighty, we be battenin' down the 'atches while ol' Barney does 'is worst, oh arr!! =Po}

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/34845386

PUN OF THE YEAR

[nanila]

Wait, they're actually calling it Storm Barney? I...I....CANNOT *falls over laughing*

Re: PUN OF THE YEAR

[chickenfeet]

It's the purplest storm ever

[quoththeravyn]

re: your remark on twitter about Yay! Scientists in Dresses!...

I was at lunch with some 25 astronomers once and one of the more talkative ones quoted some statistics about how many women there were in the field. He looked around at the (nearly) all male assemblage and said, "Well, some of us are going to have to go under the knife."

And people laughed nervously and said nothing.

This was nearly 30 years ago now (woh!). Things are better now, and there are actually even a few transpeople nowadays. But still...

[nanila]

But still...Yeah. It still feels a bit odd being non-white non-male-identifying/presenting in these circles. :/

[weaverbird]

RUM.

[nanila]

Piñ coladas!

[pulchritude]

I can't see the photo :(

[nanila]

Argh, thanks for letting me know. It must be Google Photos playing silly buggers again. I've switched to Flickr. Can you see it now?

[pulchritude]

Yes, thanks! Lovely dress! :)

[sfred]

Lovely pictures!

[nanila]

Thank you! I'm enjoying this "daily self-portrait on balcony" thing. It's quite fun.

[whereisirisnow]

A trip where you can combine working and swimming in the pool and going to the beach.. Damn! That is something!

[nanila]

Heh. The fun stuff definitely had to be fitted in around the meeting (I got up at 6:30 to go running/beach-swimming), but I can't complain, having managed to catch a few rays to store up for the long dark back home!

[cmcmck]

Nice, although given my scarred legs, I tend to go for floaty.

[nanila]

*nod nod* I'll probably never wear a bikini again because of the stretch marks on my tummy from my second pregnancy.

[soliano]

love it!

[nanila]

I did a balcony selfie every day. Must post the rest soon!

[silveradept]

Your conference and its location are clearly stellar. I have a much jealousy.

[nanila]

Oof, having posted this, Wednesday ended up being real killer. We worked from 9 AM to 8 PM with only short breaks. On the plus side, Thursday ended a little earlier than planned so we had some pool time before the sun went down.

[silveradept]

Busy day, then. Have to have at least one of those of our isn't a proper conference, right?

[nanila]

'Struth. :) Seems to have paid off, anyway.

[lark_ascends]

Love the dress. Sounds like, other than the meeting, you're having a pretty good time. :-)

[nanila]

Thanks! The meeting wasn't so bad either. ;) I like these colleagues a lot so it's always good to spend time talking biz with them.